Distraught over her stalled academic career, Alba is walking through Cambridge, England, and finds herself in front of 1... (more)
Distraught over her stalled academic career, Alba is walking through Cambridge, England, and finds herself in front of 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets Alba and invites her to stay, on the house's usual conditions: she has ninety-nine nights to turn her life around. But this is no ordinary house. Past residents -- including Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Parker -- have hung around to help newcomers . . literally, in portraits on the walls. (less)